Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,371, Jacob Genung, New Jersey.

SERVICE
New Jersey.
Gemung, Jacob
NUMBER _____
S. 34.371
CONTENTS

34371 Pay INVALID.
File No. 34,371
Jacob Fenning His Rev. Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 157
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(2,702) New Jersey.
Jacob Genung, private New Jersey line Capt Mead 1779. 4 years.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. of Sept. 1818. and sent to the care of Lewis Con- -dict, Esq; Morristown, N. Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 - $: 40.53. Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4. March, 1819. - 48 - 5 mo. 2/30 1819. $: 88.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.
Boule Hill Morris County
Application sent September 18 1818 to Lewis Condict, Morristown, N. Jersey

State of New Jersey County of Morris
Personally came before me Lewis Condict One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris. Jacob Genung, who being duly sworn deposes and saith, that he was in the service of the United States as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment; That he Enlisted at Morristown in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey as near as the deponent recollects some time in the Spring of the Year seventeen hundred and seventy eight in Captain Meads Company of the first Regiment Commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden of the Jersey line and served in the same Nine Months, that Immediately at the expiration of that time he Reenlisted into the same Company in the first Regiment Commanded by Col. Barber, that he continued in the same until the conclusion of the War; was regularly discharged from at Newburgh in the State of New York & which discharge is now lost. This Deponent further saith that he is a res- -ident of the State of New Jersey in the County of Morris, at Bottle Hill; That he is Sixty seven years of age; that from his reduced circumstances in life, he needs the assistance of his country for support; that he has never heretofore received any pension from the United States, and now prays that his name may be placed on the pension list.
Sworn & subscribed before me at Morristown the 3 d of April A.D. 1818.
Lewis Condict.
his Jacob Genung. mark

State of New Jersey County of Morris ss
Personally came before me Lewis Condick, One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, James Rodgers, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Jacob Genung, the person in the foregoing Deposition named; that he knew him as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he belonged to Capt n Meads Company of Col l Matthews Cycling Regiment, of the Jersey line, that he served in the same the full term of nine months; that the time set forth in the f th Deposition of the f th Genung of his enlistment into the f th Company is according to the best of his recollection correct and true. & further, this Deponent saith that he also belonged to the f th Company and was a musician in the same.
Sworn & subscribed before me the 3 d April 1818.
James Rodgers
Lewis Condick.
I, Lewis Condick, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jacob Genung did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy; - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the Act of Congress, of the 18 th March, Dorr: 1818.
Lewis Condick.
Morris Town N. Jersey April 3 d 1818.

State of New Jersey County of Morris ss. I Robert H. M c Carte Clerk of the said County of Morris, do Certify that Lewis Condict Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavits are made is and was at the doing thereof, duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith and Credit, is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County of Morris the second day of May A Eighteen hundred and eighteen,
Robert H. M c Carte
State of New Jersey County of Morris ss.
On this tenth day of July in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me Lewis Condict, one of Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, personally came, Jacob Witschell who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he is personally known to and acquainted with Jacob Gemung the person in the foregoing deposition named, that he this Deponent belonged to the same Company being transferred into the same from Captain Furman's Company with with the said Jacob Gemung and the same Regiment, to wit the Company of Cap t Mead, and the 1 st Regiment, commanded by Col. Parker, That it was about the month of January or February

of the year 1779 that this Deponent entered into the S d Company as also did the said Jacob Genung; at the same time:- That he and the said Jacob Genung remained and continued in the said Company & Regiment, until the conclusion of the war; They were both of them engaged in in the Battle of Monmouth, - and were both discharged from the army at Newburgh in the State of New York, Then & subscribed before me the 10 July A.D. 1818. } Jacob his Witsell mark
Note the words "at the same time" entulined before signing.
Lewis Condick.
Not in Pub.
Jacob Genung 3 d April, 1818 Admitted N: Jersey line.
New Jersey Morris County }
I do hereby further certify, that Jacob Genung aforesaid, is known to me, as a man in indigent circumstances, & that from the proof exhibited before me, I do verily believe, that he served in the Revolutionary war ag t the common enemy at one period, for a longer term than one full year.
Lewis Condick, a Judge of Morris Town N. Jersey 15 th July 1818. the Inferior Court of Com. Pleas for Morris County, N. Jersey

Jacob Gnung
apn Chatham
Con Sept 18
Mar 19
Ex 10

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris Countp, }
On this tenth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Jacob Genung aged sixty six years, resident in the township of Chatham in said county, who being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the first Jersey Regiment Commanded by Col o  Abraham Ogden in Captain Meads Company; that he made his original declaration or application for a pension on the third day of May 1818. that he has received a pension Certificate which is numbered 2702 —
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time; by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That I am sixty six years of age by occupation a laborer, but am in consequence to do any labor by lameness in both my knees, that I have no wife or family living. that for two years I have been unable to labor, so as to sufficient obtain a support for myself occasioned by my lameness that I now reside with my sister a widow woman, who is not dependent on me for support — Sworn and declared to the 10 th day of July A.D. 1820 Jacob H Ford his Jacob X Genung mark

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Jacob Gynung
I have no property of any description whatever except my weaving apparatus
Sworn and subscribed this 10 th day of July AD 1820 before Galt H. Ford
Jacob his Gynung marks

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. M c Carter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court;
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. M c Carter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris